As bummed as the beer-drinking bros will be, this could be encouraging news for some neighborhood residents. The Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day Parade is short about $40,000, and organizers might have to call it off.
The parade costs about $100,000 to produce, including police, portable toilets, traffic barricades and clean-up, reports WFAA. The Greenville Avenue Area Business Association is seeking additional funding sources.
The association has put up a fundraising website, where the public can donate to the parade, but as of this posting, it has raised only $380.
The parade has been a tradition for the past 11 years. I always assumed the parade was some stupid traffic-causing thing for drunk people and Jello-eaters (children), and it is. But then I actually attended the parade and surrounding festivities about three years ago, and you guys, it really is a good time. Not sure I would feel the same way if I lived in the line of fire, but hey, it’s only once a year.
